David Roderick, Platoon Sergeant in Company H, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division
David Roderick discusses his experiences after going ashore on Utah Beach on D-Day.
David Roderick discusses his experiences after going ashore on Utah Beach on D-Day.
Four months after Pearl Harbor, and at only 15 years old, Joe Crain joined the US Navy. In this Oral History clip, he explains his involvement on Omaha Beach in 1944.
Early on the morning of June 6, 1944, photojournalist Robert Capa landed with American troops on Omaha Beach. Before the day was through, he had taken some of the most famous combat photographs of World War II.
Keeping the memory alive of those who fought for our freedoms today.
This column is the last of three D-Day columns written by war correspondent Ernie Pyle describing the Allied invasion of Normandy.
Students and Families! Take an Electronic Field Trip to the Normandy coast with four student reporters to understand how D-Day was the turning point of the war in Europe.
Students and families! Take an Electronic Field Trip to the Normandy coast with four student reporters to understand how D-Day was the turning point of the war in Europe.
For years, a department of dedicated oral historians at the Museum has been conducting interviews with WWII veterans.